**This readme file describes the files and procedures for replicating the analyses in �Partisan Poll Watchers and Americans' Perceptions of Electoral Fairness" by Mollie J. Cohen and Geoffrey Sheagley.  **R Project**

The included R Project, "Replication_PollWatchers.Rproj" is required to run replication files without manually changing directory calls in each file. 

*Included Replication Datasets
**Study1_Clean.csv (unformatted data for study 1) 
**Study2_Clean.csv (unformatted data for study 2) 
**merged_study3.dta (unformatted data for study 3) 
**study3_conjointdata_wave1.dta (formatted data for conjoint replication in study3) 
**state watcher rules.csv - dataset of state rules for election observation. Merged with study 1 and study 2 datasets for robustness checks in appendix. 


**Replication Instructions***
1) Load R project 
2) Run each command in the file, "Run all scripts". Note, this can be run sequentially as well. 
3) Output is placed in relevant Figures or Table folder. 


**Computing Environment**

Analyses were run Mac M1Pro processor running macOS Sonoma 14.0. Stata analyses were run on Stata 17. 
R analyses were using R 4.3.0. Required R packages updated to their most recent version as of 11/13/2023. 

List of Required R Packages 
*ggplot2
*readstata13
*cregg
*tidyverse
*foreign
*stargazer
*tidymodels
*marginaleffects
*modelsummary
*margins
*dplyr
*ggpubr 

